Die Vorlesung am 23.12.2011 findet nicht statt, nach Semesterplan ist die Zeit zwischen dem 23.12.2011 & dem 06.01.2012 vorlesungsfrei (Weihnachtsferien).
Frohe Weihnachten und einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr.
‣ "On September 13, 1848, 25-year-old Phineas Gage was foreman of a work gang blasting rock while preparing the roadbed for the Rutland & Burlington Railroad outside the town of Cavendish, Vermont.After a hole was bored into a body of rock, one of Gage's duties was to add blasting powder, a fuse, and sand, then compact the charge into the hole using a large iron rod. Possibly because the sand was omitted, around 4:30 PM:
‣ the powder exploded, carrying an instrument through his head an inch and a fourth in [diameter], and three feet and [seven] inches in length, which he was using at the time. The iron entered on the side of his face...passing back of the left eye, and out at the top of the head."
Where do good ideas come from? It’s a question that matters a great deal to designers, yet seems to be curiously discounted in the common perception of graphic design. Any time I talk with, say, an uncle at Thanksgiving about my work, I’m reminded that, in most people’s minds, the job of being a designer is mainly a matter of learning a set of computer applications — programs which, when properly operated, presumably do the work of generating ideas on their own […]| Via - Smashing Magazine